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No Parking Here – KOWS October 10, 2015

October 11, 2015 Dave

Saturday mornings are root-bound…in the very best sense of the phrase. Tune into KOWS for an eclectic blend of gospel from Jimmy Murphy and The Loyal Five, early century pop from Cliff Edwards and Emmett Miler, R&B from Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland and Dr. John, country from Red Foley and Jimmy Littlejohn, and more of the sounds that matters from the past century of American music.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Gene Autry	Rhythm Of The Range	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 3]
3	Cliff Edwards	Hang on to Me	The Collection
4	Emmett Miller	(I Got A Woman Crazy For Me) She's Funny That Way	Minstrel Man From Georgia
5	Sons of the Pioneers	Rufus Rastus Johnson Brown	Songs of the Prairie – CD3
6	Arthur Smith	Follow Me Boogie (Instrumental)	The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
7	Johnny Cash	Calilou (The Rambler)	Come Along And Ride This Train [Disc 4]
8	Dr. John	How Come My Dog Don't Bark (When You Come 'Round)	Goin' Back To New Orleans
9	Bobby "Blue" Bland	I Wouldn't Treat A Dog (The Way You Treated Me)	Greatest Hits, Vol. 2: The ABC-Dunhill / MCA Recordings
10	Piano Red	Ain't Goin To Be Your Low Down Dog No	Blues, Blues, Blues
11	Pee Wee King	Dog House Blues	Pee Wee King's Country Hoedown (1 of 2)
12	Neko Case	John Saw That Number	Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
13	The Loyal Five	John The Revelator	Heaven Bound Train
14	Jimmy Murphy	John the Baptist [Live]	Electricity
15	Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys	Get Up John	Bill Monroe: Anthology
16	Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five	Private Property (No Tresspassing)	One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
17	Jimmy Littlejohn	No Parking Here	The World Is A Monster
18	Woody Guthrie	Riding in My Car (Car Song)	Woody At 100: The Woody Guthrie Centennial Collection
19	Billy Murray	The Little Old Ford	Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure
20	Vince Gill	Love Bug	Bradley Barn Sessions
21	Little Jimmy Dickens	When That Love Bug Bites You	Country Boy [Disc 2]
22	Jimmy Edwards	Love Bug Crawl	Foot Tappin' & Dance At Screamin' Festival Vol. 5
23	Red Foley & Minnie Pearl	Love Bug Itch	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 3]
24	The Mills Brothers	The Love Bug Will Bite You	Mills Brothers – Goldent Greats
25	Vera Lynn	The Love Bug Will Bite You	A Tribute, Volume II: It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow
26	Doc & Merle Watson	Corrina, Corrina	Then And Now/Two Days In November
27	Spade Cooley	Crazy' Cause I Love You	Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley
28	The Weavers	Meet the Johnson Boys	The Weavers at Home
29	Clifton Chenier	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Bogalusa Boogie
30	Huey "Piano" Smith	We I'll Be John Brown	ABC Of The Blues, Vol. 40
31	Junior Brown & Red Simpson	Nitro Express	Rig Rock Deluxe
32	Red Simpson	Truck Drivin' Man	The Best of Red Simpson: Country Western Truck Drivin' Singer
33	Tex Ritter	Dear John	Have I Stayed Away Too Long
34	Ray Charles	You Don't Know Me	Genius – The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection
35	Dr. John The Night Tripper	Mama Roux	The Atco/Atlantic Singles 19681974

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Wild Men and Wild Women

October 10, 2015 Dave

It’s theme time once again and we’re going to find ourselves among the wild and crazy men as well as the wild, woolly women. Round town girls celebrate, burning that candle, and Keely Smith will jump, jive, and wail with Louis Prima. Red Ingle and His Natural Seven will join the Sons of the Pioneers in spreading the word about ‘cigareets, whuskey, and wild, wild women”. Mae West, Julia Lee, Ernie Ford, and Jerry Lee Lewis will keep the party going and Deeper Roots will keep the lights on ’till 11pm sharp (that’s Pacific Time, of course). Join Dave Stroud for another two hours of a century of America’s music on KWTF, 88.1 FM, community radio for Bodega Bay.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Mary Ford	Running Wild	100 Jazz Guitar Favorites
3	Garland Jeffreys	Wild in the Streets	Ghost Writer/One-Eyed Jack/American Boy & Girl [[Disc 1]]
4	The Jive Bombers	Bad Boy	Cry-Baby
5	Donnie Elbert	Wild Child (Deluxe 6156)	R&B Humdingers Volume 11
6	Johnny Carroll	Wild Wild Women	Classic Rockabilly-Cool Cats & Hot Chicks
7	Jerry Lee Lewis	Real Wild Child (Wild One)	A Half Century Of Hits [Disc 1]
8	Carl Mann	Born To Be Bad	Midnight Cryin' Time: Teen Angst Classics From The Rock 'n' Roll Era
9	Charline Arthur	Burn That Candle	Welcome To The Club
10	Wanda Jackson	Hard Headed Woman	There's A Party Goin' On
11	Wanda Jackson	Let's Have A Party	Queen Of Rockabilly
12	Tennessee Ernie Ford	I'm A Bad Man	Masters 1949-1976 [Disc 2]
13	The Dave & Deke Combo	Wild Woman	Hollywood Barndance
14	Freda & the Firedogs	Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad	Freda & The Firedogs
15	The Sons Of The Pioneers	Cigareetes, Whusky And Wild, Wild Women	Country Legends
16	Red Ingle & His Natural Seven	Cigareets, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women (Smoking)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
17	Wanda, Ruth Neal	Round Town Girls	Flowers In The Wildwood
18	King James	Wild Wooly Woman	Stompin' 25
19	Julia Lee	Do You Want It?	Burlesque – 100 Classics
20	Eunice Davis	Let's Have A Party	Stompin' 25
21	Little Richard	The Girl Can't Help It	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 2
22	Keely Smith/Louis Prima/Sam Butera & the Witnesses	Jump, Jive, An' Wail	Loud, Fast & Out of Control: The Wild Sounds of the '50s [Box] Disc 1
23	Carmen MacRae	Whatever Lola Wants	Burlesque – 100 Classics
24	Mae West	I'm No Angel	The Mae West Collection
25	Billy Jones With The Little Ramblers	Don't Bring Lulu	The Naughty 1920s: Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age Volume 2
26	Cecil Gant	Little Baby You're Running Wild	The Cecil Gant Collection
27	Wynonie Harris	Young And Wild	Playful Baby
28	Rudy Greene	Wild Life	Various Artists: Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2/[Disc 1]
29	Memphis Nighthawks	Wild Man Stomp	Document Shortcuts Vol. 3 – My Babe
30	Memphis Minnie	I'm A Bad Luck Woman	Queen Of Country Blues [Disc 5] (1936-1937)
31	Champion Jack Dupree	Bad Whiskey And Wild Women	Two Classic Albums Plus Singles
32	JB Hutto & The Hawks	Wild Wild Woman	Masters Of Modern Blues
33	Albert King	Wild Women	Door To Door
34	Little Jimmy King	Wild Woman	Little Jimmy King and the Memphis Soul Survivors
35	Amy Helm	Wild Girl	Didn't It Rain
36	John Hammond	Wild Man On The Loose	Trouble No More
37	Louis Armstrong & The Hot 7	Wild Man Blues	The Complete Hot Five And Hot Seven Recordings [Disc 3]

Bluegrass, Deeper Roots on KOWS, Folk and Tradition, Modern Americana

Pickin’ Time – KOWS Oct 5, 2015

October 6, 2015 Dave

Dave Stroud will be sitting in tonight for Mark Hogan once again at 6pm Pacific. He’s got another episode of Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music. In this episode, he’ll be following along Mark’s theme of old time and bluegrass, old and new. The playlist this evening will include bluegrass from James King, Mac Wiseman, David Grisman and Bill Monroe. He’ll also be sharing new tracks from Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas, Kinky Friedman, The Dustbowl Revival (fresh from Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this past weekend), and a couple of tracks fromLowell Levinger From The Youngbloods’s new album “Get Together – Youngblood Classics”. Tune in for some Eddy Arnold tribute pieces, music about the married life, and a couple of fine recordings of the great guitar pioneer Riley Puckett.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Mac Martin & The Dixie Travelers	Smokey Mountain Rag	With The Travelin Blues
3	Merle Travis	Freight Train (Instrumental)	The World's Greatest Bluegrass Bands
4	Dallas Smith	My Home Across the Blue Ridge Mountains	Still Pickin'
5	James King	Things Have Gone to Pieces	Three Chords & The Truth
6	Red Allen	I Heard My Mother Call My Name	Lonesome and Blue: The Complete County Recordings
7	Neko Case	Wayfaring Stranger	Live From Austin, TX
8	Kinky Friedman	Pickin Time	The Loneliest Man I Ever Met
9	Ricky Skaggs	Walls Of Time	Bluegrass Today [Disc 2]
10	David Grisman	Wicked Path of Sin (feat. Old & In The Way)	Dawg Plays Big Mon
11	Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys	Wicked Path Of Sin	All The Classic Releases 1937-1949 [Disc 4]
12	Solitaire Miles	You Can't Break My Heart	Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas
13	Kacey Musgraves	You're From Texas	Wanted: One Good Cowboy
14	Pokey LaFarge	Lovebug Itch	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
15	Well Worn Soles	Worried	Country/Folk
16	Frank Black	Don't Rob Another Man's Castle	You Don't Know Me: Rediscovering Eddy Arnold
17	Don Henley Feat. Mick Jagger & Miranda Lambert	Bramble Rose	Cass County (Deluxe)
18	Traveling Show	Hillbilly Wedding Day	Songs From The Road Band
19	Charlie Haden	Single Girl, Married Girl	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
20	Robbie Fulks	Act Like A Married Man	13 Hillbilly Giants
21	John Prine With Lucinda Williams	Wedding Bells / Let's Turn Back The Years	In Spite Of Ourselves
22	Nikki Lane	Wild One	All or Nothin' (Deluxe)
23	Lowell Levinger	Sugar Babe	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
24	Lowell Levinger	Euphoria	Get Together- Youngblood Classics
25	Riley Puckett	It's A Sin To Tell A Lie	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
26	Riley Puckett	Cindy	Country Music Pioneer vol 1
27	Mac Wiseman	Dust On The Bible	Grassroots To Bluegrass
28	Si Kahn and The Looping Brothers	To Hear Doc Watson Play	Aragon Mill: The Bluegrass Sessions
29	Doc Watson	Make Me a Pallet	Memories
30	Amy Helm	Roll Awy	Didn't It Rain
31	The Dustbowl Revival	Lampshade On	With a Lampshade On
32	Charlie Gracie	Just A Closer Walk With Thee	Angel on My Shoulder

High Noon

September 26, 2015 Dave

It’s a new morning…as it always is…and was when we celebrated another Saturday morning in Occidental with Deeper Roots Radio: A Century of America’s Music with host Dave Stroud. This twice-monthly show opens with a mule kicking in the stall, some barnyard rhythm and then moves swiftly into a blend of 1950s country and big band. Ray Charles, Frankie Laine, Chick Webb, Otis Spann, and Merle Travis are just a sampling of performers we’ll hear from. West County living deserves roots music wafting over the airwaves on a Saturday morning in early autumn. Let’s set the airwaves stage with some Otis Spann.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Nellie Lutcher	He's A Real Gone Guy	Capitol Records' From The Vaults, Volume 5 – Roots Of Rock 'N' Roll – 1944-53
3	Nellie Lutcher	There's Another Mule In Your Stall	Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm [Disc 1]
4	Otis Spann	Mule Kicking In My Stall	Cryin' Time
5	Louis Jordan	Barnyard Boogie	Jivin' With Jordan
6	Joe Liggins	Rhythm In The Barnyard	Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers
7	The Andrews Sisters	A Man is a Brother To a Mule	Golden Age of the Andrews Sisters [Disc 4]
8	Charlie Poole With Sid Harkreader and Uncle Dave Macon	Man that Rode the Mule Around the World	You Ain't Talkin' To Me: Charlie Poole And The Roots Of Country Music [Disc 2]
9	Ralph Stanley	I've Got A Mule To Ride	Old-Time Pickin': A Clawhammer Banjo Collection
10	Tennessee Ernie Ford	Mule Train (1996 Digital Remaster)	Vintage Collections
11	Frankie Laine	That Lucky Old Sun [Album Version]	Frankie Laine's Greatest Hits
12	Ray Charles	That Lucky Old Sun (Just Rolls Around Heaven All Day)	Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection Disc 3
13	Merle Travis & Joe Maphis	High Noon	Country Guitar Giants
14	Frankie Laine	Rawhide	Country Greats #2
15	Chick Webb and his Orchestra	Don't Be That Way	from CD; orig. Decca 483
16	Ella Fitzgerald	Melinda the Mousle	Chronological Classics: Ella Fitzgerald 1940-41
17	Annette Hanshaw	Who's That Knocking At My Door	The Twenties Sweetheart
18	Brother Grady Coffee	I'm Working on a Building	This May Be My Last Time Singing: Raw African-American Gospel on 45RPM, 1957-1982
19	Elvis Presley	Working on the Building	Amazing Grace: His Greatest Sacred Songs Disc 1
20	Murry Hammond	In The Shadow Of Clinch Mountain	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
21	John & Jamie Hartford	When the Roses Bloom in Dixieland	Hartford & Hartford
22	June Carter Cash	Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?	Wildwood Flower
23	George Jones	Worried Man Blues	The Winding StreamThe Carters, The Cashes And The Course Of Country Music
24	The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes	Will the Circle Be Unbroken [Bonus Tracks] Disc 2
25	David Lindley and Wally Ingram	Coot From Tennessee	Twango Bango Deluxe
26	Ole Ramussen	Sleepy Eyed John	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
27	Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys	Oozlin' Daddy Blues	Legends of Country Music Disc 2
28	Cliff Hobbs;Bill Cox	Oozlin' Daddy Blues [Album Version]	White Country Blues (1926-1938)
29	Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen	Big Mamou	We've Got a Live One Here!
30	Ella Mae Morse w/Big Dave and His Orchestra	Big Mamou	Barrell House Boogie and the Blues
31	Bonnie Guitar	Noon Train	Affair
32	Norridge Mayhams And The Blue Chips	If I Had My Way	Norridge Mayhams and The Blue Chips

Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition, Gospel, Mountain Music

The Dust-to-Digital Label

September 26, 2015 Dave

Our weekly KWTF show is about a label whose chief purpose is the resurrection of that curious mix of ephemera, folklore, ancestry, and musicianship that reveals itself as folk music: whether it be pre-Monroe bluegrass, gospel, blues, or early pop. The label I speak of is Dust-To-Digital and we’ll scratch the surface of some of the great work that they’ve issued since 1999, the year Lance Ledbetter and his wife April open shop in Atlanta, Georgia.Their mission is the same as it was then: to produce high quality cultural artifacts.

Pitchfork magazine put it this way: “Although the folklorists lugging around tape recorders (and the performers carrying on ancient traditions) are worthy of much heralding, it’s equally astounding how essential Lance Ledbetter’s work at Dust-to-Digital has been to the preservation of traditional American folksong. It’s easy to buy and appreciate these sets without realizing that the bulk of the material might have been lost — or, at the very least, tethered to archives, readily accessible only to curious faculty, paper-writing students, and bespectacled researchers — without Ledbetter’s interference.”

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Jimmy Murphy	We Live A Long Time To Get Old	Desperate Man Blues
3	Tennesee Messarounds	Mandolin Blues	Desperate Man Blues
4	Lonnie Johnson	Death Valley is Just Half Way To My Home	Desperate Man Blues
5	Chubby Parker	Bib-a-lollie-boo	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
6	Ernest Thompson	In the Baggage Coach Ahead	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
7	Roy Smeck Trio	Reaching for the Moon	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
8	Lew Childre	It Don't Do Nothing but Rain	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
9	Sara Martin & Sylvester Weaver	I've Got to Go and Leave My Daddy Behind	…I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces
10	Sister O.M. Terrell	The Bible's Right	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
11	Mahalia Jackson	God's Gonna Separate The Wheat From The Tares	Goodbye, Babylon – Introduction [Disc 1]
12	The North Carolina Cooper Boys	Daniel In The Den Of Lions	Goodbye, Babylon – Deliverance Will Come [Disc 2]
13	Moses Williams	The Train	Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1]
14	Emmett Murray	She's a Fool, She Ain't Got No Sense	Drop On Down in Florida [Disc 1]
15	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	Huff Construction Company (Radio Commercial)	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
16	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	I Love the Lord	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
17	Dorothy Lee	You Got to Give an Account (feat. Norma Jean, Shirley Marie Johnson & Robert nighthawk Johnson)	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
18	Babe Stovall	When the Circle Be Unbroken	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
19	Robert nighthawk Johnson	Cant No Grave Hold My Body Down	Sorrow Come Pass Me Around: A Survey of Rural Religious Black Music
20	Henagar Union Sacred Harp Convention	Save, Lord, or We Perish 224	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
21	Denson's Sacred Harp Singers of Arley, Alabama	Ninety-Fifth 36B	I Belong to This Band: Eight-Five Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
22	Brother Claude Ely	Send Down The Rain	Satan Get Back
23	Uncle Eck Dunford and Ernest Stoneman	Barney McCoy	Lead Kindly Light
24	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
25	Georgia Yellow Hammers	Mary Don't You Weep	Lead Kindly Light
26	Charlie Parker and Mack Woolbright	Man Who Wrote the Home Sweet Home Never Was a Married Man	Lead Kindly Light
27	Loveless Twins Quartet	Lead Kindly Light	Lead Kindly Light
28	The Morrison Twin Brothers String Band	Ozark Waltz	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
29	Dr. Smith's Champion Hoss Hair Pullers	Just Give Me the Leavings	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
30	Wonder State Harmonists	Turnip Greens	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
31	Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers	Jaw Bone	Arkansas at 78 RPM: Corn Dodgers & Hoss Hair Pullers
32	Clarence Alexander	Disability Boogie Woogie	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
33	22 & Group	The Prettiest Train I Ever Saw	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
34	Henry Ratcliff	Look For Me In Louisiana	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
35	Willie Washington	My Jack Dont Drink No Water	Parchman Farm: Photographs And Field Recordings: 19471959
36	The David Thom Band	Windy City	That Old Familiar

Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Folk and Tradition

Modern Americana in Tradition

September 19, 2015 Dave

We revisit tradition and roots with a number of contemporary performers who honor the American musical heritage with new arrangements, new interpretations, and songs whose lyrics might take on a different meaning in a new time. What was ripe for picking in the first part of the century might not mean all of the same in our world today. We’ll hear songs of love, death, destitution, prostitution, farmer’s work, the sky above and the sea below… You’ll hear Americana releases from as far back as 1971 and we’ll include a number of tracks from this year…the year 2015…with the one thing in common being that the songs performed have stories that go further back and, in most cases, go so far back that they are considered traditional.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Van Dyke Parks/Mondrian	Sail Away Lady	The Harry Smith Project Live Vol. 2
3	The Wailin' Jennys	Long Time Traveller	Firecracker
4	Rosanne Cash	Motherless Children	The List
5	Cyd Cassone/Ruthie Foster	Death Came a Knockin' (Travelin' Shoes)	Stages
6	Steve Martin	Sweet Heaven When I Die	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
7	Pharis and Jason Romero	Goodbye Old Paint	A Wanderer I'll Stay
8	Spuyten Duyvil	Stewball	The Social Music Hour Vol. 1
9	Alison Krauss	Cluck Old Hen	Every Time You Say Goodbye
10	Robert Earl Keen, Jr.	East Virginia Blues	Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
11	Adkins & Loudermilk	Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Adkins & Loudermilk
12	She & Him	Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Volume One
13	Ben Harper & The Blind Boys Of Alabama	If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again	There Will Be a Light
14	Allen Toussaint	St. James Infirmary	The Bright Mississippi
15	Ashley Monroe	The Storms Are On The Ocean	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited
16	Uncle Tupelo	No Depression	No Depression
17	Band Of Ruhks	Lost Highway	Band Of Ruhks
18	Dave Alvin & the Guilty Men	What Does the Deep Sea Say?	Public Domain: Songs from the Wild Land
19	Mudcrutch	Shady Grove	Mudcrutch
20	Dwight Yoakam/The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band	Some Dark Holler	Dwight's Used Records
21	Rhiannon Giddens	Round About the Mountain	Tomorrow Is My Turn
22	Leo Kottke	Cripple Creek	Mudlark
23	David Johansen	Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me	Shaker
24	David Johansen & The Harry Smiths	Richland Woman	David Johansen and the Harry Smiths
25	The Boxmasters	Knoxville Girl	The Boxmasters Disc 2
26	Bruce Springsteen	Shenandoah	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
27	Bruce Springsteen	O Mary Don't You Weep	We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions [DualDisc] Disc 1
28	Charlie Haden	Old Joe Clark	Charlie Haden Family & Friends – Rambling Boy
29	The Duhks	Banjo Roustabout	Beyond the Blue
30	Kate & Anna McGarrigle	Green Green Rocky Road	High On A Mountain
31	Emmylou Harris	Bury Me Beneath The Willow	Orthophonic Joy: The 1927 Bristol Sessions Revisited

Country Swing, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Fifties Country, Mountain Music

Hillbilly Fever

September 19, 2015 Dave

The sound was simple, fun, and certainly influential. It evolved from ancestral celebrations…finding its groove by the mid 1930s and playing itself out as a popular voice well through the early days of what was termed the Golden Age of Country Music, the 1950s. The entertainment industry collectively shunned the hillbilly term by the mid-50s, choosing the more sedate “Country and Western” moniker and certainly the even more narcoleptic sound of Nashvile going into the coming decade and beyond. Hillbilly music lives today only as splinter and special edge-case Americana. Listen and find out.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	The Delmore Brothers	Hillbilly Boogie	26 All-Time Country Classics
3	Sons of The Ozarks	Plantation Blues	Hillbilly Blues
4	The Lone Star Cowboys	Deep Elm Blues	Hillbilly Blues
5	Ernest Tubb & Red Foley	Don't Be Ashamed Of Your Age	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2]
6	Bill Carlisle	Bell Clappin' Mama	Hillbilly Blues
7	Al Dexter	Hi-De-Ho Boogie On A Saturday Night	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
8	Al Dexter	Pistol Packin' Mama	Pistol Packin' Mama
9	Curly Williams	Southern Belle	Country & Western, Vol.2 [Disc 5]
10	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	Bring It On Home To Grandma	Theme Time Radio Hour – Season 3 – [Disc 1]
11	Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers	I Was A Gambler In Texas	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 4] Saturday Night Rag)
12	Faron Young	If You Aint Lovin' (You Aint Livin')	Hillbilly Fever – Vol. 3: Legends Of Nashville
13	W. Lee O'Daniel & His Hillbilly Boys	There'll Be Some Changes Made	Okeh Western Swing
14	Clyde Moody	08 – Nobody's Business	The Hillbilly Waltz King
15	Little Jimmy Dickens	Hillbilly Fever	Roughneck Blues 1949 – 1956
16	Grandpa Jones	It's Raining Here This Morning (Remake)	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
17	Ocie Stockard & His Wanderers	Bass Man Jive	Western Swing: Hot Hillbilly Jazz & Blues – 1935-1947
18	Joe Maphis & Rose Lee	Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
19	Hank Penny	Hadacillin Boogie	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
20	Hank Penny	Hillbilly Jump	King Of Hillbilly Bebop [Disc 2]
21	Billy Jack Wills & His Western Swing Band	Troubles (Those Lonesome Kind)	Hillbilly Fever! Vol. 1: Legends Of Western Swing
22	Redd Stewart	Brother Drop Dead (Boogie)	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
23	Charlie Gore	I Put My Britches On Just Like Everybody Else	Hillbilly Bop 'n' Boogie: King/Federal Roots of Rockabilly 1944 – 56
24	Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant	Bryant's Bounce	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
25	Red Foley	Choc'late Ice Cream Cone	Hillbilly Fever [Disc 2]
26	The Light Crust Doughboys	Little Hillbilly Heart Throb	Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp)
27	Skeets McDonald	Scoot Git And Begone	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys
28	Jimmy Bryant	Jelly Beans Daddy	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
29	Luke Wills	Four Or Five Times	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
30	Rose Maddox & Her Brothers	Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down	Swinging Hollywood Hillbilly Cowboys: The West Coast Indies
31	Robbie Fulks	We Live A Long Time To Get Old	13 Hillbilly Giants
32	The Ranch Girls & Their Ragtime Wranglers	Hillbilly Jive With a Boogie Beat	Can You Hear It?
33	Larry Nolen & The Bandits	Hillbilly Love Affair	Bear Family "Perfect for Parties" Highlight Album
34	The Osborne Brothers	Hillbilly Fever	World's Hottest Bluegrass
35	Bill Kirchen	Hillbilly Truck Drivin' Man	Tied to the Wheel
36	Junior Brown	Hillbilly Hula Gal	12 Shades of Brown
37	BR5-49	Little Ramona (Gone Hillbilly Nuts)	BR5-49
38	BR5-49	Cherokee Boogie	BR5-49

Blues, Country, Deeper Roots on KWTF, Jazz, Theme Time

Songs About Doctors

August 29, 2015 Dave

We go to the theme well once more on Deeper Roots, this time with music that explores the tincture of hadacol, the sick bed blues, the boogie woogie flu, measles, whooping cough, and snake oil…all in a show full of the very best of music about being sick in bed and sending for the doctor from the last century of big band, jazz, country, blues, and rock.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Betty Hutton	Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief	Hoagy Carmichael. Stardust – 51 Original Mono Recordings 1924-1957
3	Doc Pomus	Send for the Doctor (Doctors)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
4	Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns	Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (Part 1)	Having A Good Time with Huey 'Piano' Smith & His Clowns – The Very Best Of, Volume 1
5	Huey "Piano" Smith	Would You Believe it, I Have a Cold (Doctors)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
6	Doctor Ross	Call The Doctor (Hi-Q 5033, 1963)	Rhythm & Blues Goes Rock & Roll/Volume 2 [Disc 7]
7	Doctor Ross	The Boogie Disease	Plug It In! Turn It Up! – Teil 1: Die Anfdnge 1939 – 1954
8	Roy Byrd & His Blues Jumpers	Hadacol Bounce	'Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology [Disc 1]
9	Jerry Lee Lewis	Hadacol Boogie	A Half Century Of Hits: Rockin' My Life Away [Disc 3]
10	Ray Charles	I Don't Need No Doctor	BMG Vol. 01 Disc 03 1966-1971
11	Joan Osborne	I Dont Need No Doctor	Bring It On Home
12	Artie Shaw	Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?	The Artie Shaw Story – Disc 3 – Frenesi
13	Benny Goodman	Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jibe	Texas Tea Party
14	Daddy Stovepipe & Mississippi Sarah	The Spasm	Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937
15	Walter Smith	The Cat's Got the Measles, the Dog's Got the Whooping Cough	Good For What Ails You (2) Music Of The Medicine Shows 1926-1937
16	Bert Mays	Snake Doctor Blues	Blues From The Vocalion Vaults
17	Memphis Minnie	Doctor, Doctor Blues	Memphis Minnie – Queen of Country Blues, 1929 – 1937 [Disc 4]
18	South Memphis Jug Band	Doctor Medicine	Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow!
19	Bill Nettles & His Dixie Blues Boys	Hadacol Boogie (Doctors)	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 3
20	Shorty Godwin	Jimbo Jambo Land	Good For What Ails You: Music Of The Medicine Shows 19261937
21	Rev. Johnny L. Jones	I Don't Need A Doctor (Sermon Excerpt)	The Hurricane That Hit Atlanta
22	Boyd Rivers	You Gonna Take Sick and Die	Living Country Blues: An Anthology Disc 1
23	Skip James	Sick Bed Blues [Album Version]	Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
24	Casey Bill Weldon	Lady Doctor Blues	Bottleneck Guitar Trendsetters Of The 1930s
25	Mance Lipscomb	Mother Had A Sick Child	Ash Grove 12/6/1964
26	Mississippi Sheiks	When You're Sick With The Blues	Complete Recorded Works Vol. 3
27	Warren Zevon	Don't Let Us Get Sick	Life'll Kill Ya
28	Willie Nelson	Too Sick To Pray	One Hell Of A Ride
29	Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks	I Asked My Doctor	Last Train To Hicksville… The Home Of Happy Feet
30	The Rolling Stones	Dear Doctor	Beggars Banquet
31	J.J. Cale	Call The Doctor	Naturally
32	Guada La Habrians/Phil Alvin	Oh, Doctor	County Fair 2000
33	Boz Scaggs	Sick And Tired	Come On Home
34	Otis Redding	I'm Sick Y'All	Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
35	Irma Thomas	Doctor Feelgood	The Story of My Life

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Dark Moon

August 22, 2015 Dave

We’re going to go pretty deep this coming Saturday morning here in Western Sonoma County. It’s a mix of old time and tradition with a few themed sets including social sciences, the labor blues, calypso rhythm, minstrelsy, and some special sounds from Ira and Charlie Louvin. Performers this week include Darby & Tarlton, Riley Puckett, Fern Jones, Arizona Dranes, and a pair each from Ry Cooder and Harry Belafonte. It’s a “Great Dream From Heaven” for KOWS listeners on an August morning in Occidental. Broadcast on KOWS 107.3 FM on August 22, 2015.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Little Jimmy Dickens	May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose	Columbia Country Classics, Vol. 3: Americana
3	Ry Cooder	Great Dream From Heaven	Into The Purple Valley (Remaster 2013)
4	Del McCoury	Fireside Chat, Part 1 (feat. Franklin D. Roosevelt)	Moneyland
5	Bob Miller	The Rich Man And The Poor Man [Rematered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
6	Frank Crumit	A Tale of the Ticker [Remastered 2003]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
7	Uncle Dave Macon	All In Down And Out Blues [2003 Remastered]	Poor Man's Heaven – Blues And Tales Of The Great Depression – When The Sun Goes Down Series
8	Ry Cooder	Denomination Blues	Into The Purple Valley
9	Washington Phillips	Denomination Blues	Bob Dylan Presents: Radio Radio, Theme Time Radio Hour, Vol. 1
10	Arizona Dranes	God's Got A Crown	He Is My Story: The Sanctified Soul Of Arizona Dranes
11	Elvis Presley	Swing Down Sweet Chariot	His Hand In Mine
12	Fern Jones	By And By	The Glory Road
13	Dave Van Ronk	That'll Never Happen No More	Sunday Street
14	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Dark As A Dungeon	Best Of The Vanguard Years
15	Emmett Miller	That's The Good Old Sunny South	Minstrel Man From Georgia
16	Emmett Miller & His Georgia Crackers	Lovesick Blues	Minstrel Man From Georgia
17	Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard	Coal Miner Blues	Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
18	Riley Puckett And Ted Hawkins	Hawkins Rag	Serenade The Mountains: Early Old Time Music On Record, [Disc 3]
19	Darby & Tarlton	Lonesome Frisco Line	Lonesome Whistle – An Anthology Of American Railroad Song
20	Lead Belly	Black Betty	Lead Belly's Last Sessions
21	Odetta	Shame And Scandal	Sings Ballads And Blues
22	Harry Belafonte	Mama, Look at Boo Boo	Harry Belafonte: Greatest Hits
23	Harley Allen & Dierks Bentley	I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby	Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs Of The Louvin Brothers
24	The Louvin Brothers	Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar	Close Harmony [Disc 5]
25	The Louvin Brothers	Keep Watching The Sky	Close Harmony [Disc 8]
26	Bonnie Guitar	Dark Moon	Hard to Find 45s On CD: Pop & Country Classics
27	Skeeter Davis	The One You Slip Around With	The Essential Skeeter Davis
28	Wanda Jackson	Savin' My Love	Rockin' With Wanda [US Bonus Tracks]
29	Webb Pierce	I Ain't Never	20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best Of Webb Pierce
30	The Allen Brothers	Skipping and Flying	Lead Kindly Light
31	Bascom Lamar Lunsford	Kidder Cole	The Cornshucker's Frolic Vol. 1: Downhome Music And Entertainment From The American Countryside
32	The Weavers	Bring Me Li'l Water Sylvia	Dust Bowl Blues: Essential American Folk [Disc 2]
33	Little Jimmy Dickens	I'm In Love Up To My Ears	Country Boy [Disc 1]
34	Rosie Flores & The Jordanaires	I Ain't Never	Caught in the Webb
35	Dale Watson & The Jordanaires	In The Jailhouse Now	Caught In the Webb
36	Los Indios Tabajaras	Maria Elena	Nipper's Greatest Hits: The 60's, Vol. 1

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Back to Bakersfield

August 22, 2015 Dave

Deeper Roots heads down the long hot stretch of 99 to California’s Central Valley to visit the country sound that blew in from every direction…starting with the Dust Bowl. Bakersfield was a first step, a way station, for migrant workers coming into California to escape hard times in the Midwest; their treatment by the small minds of fearful communities being little different than those migrants we think of today. “In the years following World War II, Bakersfield had plentiful honky-tonks including the soon-to-be-famous Blackboard Cafe. People drank, danced, and even fought to Western swing music.” The sound of Nashville began to become watered down, losing its appeal to some who thought it had lost a reverence for the heart and soul of working class Country. We’ll hear from Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins, and Billy Mize and tip our cap to a great book on the subject of the Bakersfield sound and the history of Country Music: Workin’ Man Blues written by local author and Central Valley native, Gerald Haslam.

No.
1	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
2	Merle Haggard	Workin' Man Blues	Capitol Collector's Series
3	Hank Thompson	Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart	Most Of All
4	Slim Whitman	Song Of The Old Water Wheel	Vintage Collections
5	Billy Barton	Blues in the Blue of Night	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
6	Fuzzy Owen	Arkie's Got Her Shoes On	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
7	Tommy Collins	Untied	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
8	Tommy Collins	You Better Not Do That	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
9	Tommy Collins	Ernest Tubb 78s	One More Record Please
10	Billy Mize	Solid Sender	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
11	Bonnie Blue Bell & Leon Reach & Chic Adams Band	Let's Go	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
12	Bill Woods	Go Crazy Man	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
13	Buck Owens	Hot Dog (with Danny Dedmon)	The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 1; 1950s & 60s Boppers and Rockers from 'Nashville West'
14	Buck Owens	Take Me Back Again	Buck Owens
15	Buck Owens	Act Naturally	The Buck Owens Collection (1959-1990) [Disc 1]
16	Buck Owens	Down, Down, Down	Buck 'Em: The Music of Buck Owens (1955-1967)
17	Wynn Stewart	Big Big Love	California Country
18	Wynn Stewart	Another Day, Another Dollar	Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack
19	Wynn Stewart	You're That Someone Else	Come On – Gonna Shake This Shack
20	Merle Haggard	The Roots Of My Raising	Capitol Collector's Series
21	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	Today I Started Loving You Again (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
22	Merle Haggard; Ray Price; Vince Gill; Willie Nelson	Heartaches by the Number	Last of the Breed Disc 1
23	Jean Shepard	A Dear John Letter	Hillbilly Fever: Vol. 4 – Heroes Of Country Music – Vol. 4: Legends Of The West Coast
24	James Burton And Ralph Mooney	I'm A Lonesome Fugitive	Corn Pickin' And Slick Slidin'
25	Ferlin Husky	Heart of Stone	1949-1950 (Warped 498F)
26	Ferlin Husky	Freckles and Polliwog Days	Ferlin Husky Singles
27	Connie Smith	Ain't Had No Lovin'	The Essential Connie Smith
28	Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens	Streets Of Bakersfield	The Best Of Classic Country 80's
29	Dwight Yoakam	The Sad Side of Town	Tomorrow's Sounds Today
30	Dwight Yoakam	Guitars, Cadillacs	Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Disc 1
31	The Blasters	Blue Shadows	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (1 of 2)
32	The Blasters	Hey, Girl	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2)
33	The Blasters	American Music	Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings (1981-1985) (2 of 2)
34	Dave Alvin	California's Burning	Dave Alvin and The Guilty Women
35	Dave Alvin	Out in California	Interstate City
36	Merle Haggard And The Strangers	The Legend Of Bonnie And Clyde (2006 Digital Remaster)	Hag: The Best of Merle Haggard
37	Wynn Stewart	Wishful Thinking	Golden Age of Country Volume 2: Hard-to-Find Hits [Disc 2]
38	Buck Owens	The Band Keep's Playin' On	Buck 'Em: The Music Of Buck Owens (1955-1967)

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